I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Digital History Program at Clemson University specializing in the history of the United States and the world. I served as the Data and Methods Manager for the project Mapping the Gay Guides between 2022 and 2024. More recently I have worked as the Andrew Mellon Data Fellow for the project Freedom on the Move at Cornell University. My dissertation research investigates spatial and rhetorical representations of the U.S. American empire and U.S. cultural attitudes toward foreign nations, particularly Latin America. Currently, I also teach U.S. History to 1877 as an Instructor of Record in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson.
More on my background
I hold an MA in Public History and Historic Preservation from Colorado State University and a BA in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. My thesis entitled “Invented Pasts, Imagined Futures: World’s Fairs, Cities, and Narratives of Brazilian Nationhood in the Built Environment, 1893-1976” dealt with the maturation of Brazil’s modern nationhood in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by examining the spatial narratives of world’s fairs as microcosms of modernity and ideologies of national identity.
Still in Brazil, I built up extensive experience in different areas of the historical profession, including museum interpretation, curatorship, archival research, and teaching. Before attending Clemson University, I worked an internship as an archive technician and research assistant with the Public & Environmental History Center in collaboration with the USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center. I was also a GIS intern with the Geospatial Centroid in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I worked in partnership with the Larimer County Department of Natural Resources.
As part of the inaugural cohort of the Digital History Ph.D. Program at Clemson, I’ve been learning how to incorporate digital methodologies and theory in historical research, using text mining, word vector analysis, and GIS to investigate dynamics of place-making, cultural representations of empire at the turn of the twentieth century through a transnational approach.
